History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves

The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.

There’s only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize they’re changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.